Oddity

The daughter of a murdered doctor vows to guard the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century the place a failed Louisiana Buy has locked a younger Unified States into battle with France.

It’s the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States along with her father, a doctor. See to the physique earlier than you, he teaches her, however Clover can’t assist turning into distracted by larger issues, together with the approaching battle between the US and France, ignited by a failed Louisiana Buy, and the terrifying vermin, cobbled collectively from useless animals and spare elements, who patrol the woods. Most of all, she is consumed with curiosity for Oddities, peculiar objects with extraordinary skills, equivalent to a Teapot that makes limitless quantities of tea and an Ice Hook that freezes every little thing it touches. Clover’s father has all the time disapproved of Oddities, however when he’s murdered, Clover embarks on a deadly mission to guard the one secret Oddity he left behind. And as she uncovers the reality about her mother and father and her previous, Clover emerges as a strong agent of historical past. Right here is an action-filled American fantasy of alternate historical past to rival the nice British fantasies in concepts and scope.